Chapter 1165 The World Situation Has Changed Dramatically
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Just a few years ago, when President Clinton was in office, the United States was still full of prosperity, but after Bush took office, the situation in the United States and the changes that have taken place make them unable to believe that this is the president they elected and trusted, and completely brought the whole United States into hell.
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The Secretary of State personally went to Europe to lobby, but the attitude of the European countries was very firm that the United States must gradually withdraw their troops from Europe.
Although it can be maintained for the time being, the US withdrawal plan must be worked out, and Europe's defense will be more done by the Europeans themselves.
In the United States, the impeachment process against Bush has also begun, and Bush has made a serious mistake and completely dragged the US economy to the trough, and the Democratic Party has brought out the economic development and surplus of the US treasury during the Clinton period.
This incident led to a serious economic recession in the United States and the formation of a new world pattern, and the decline of the United States was in sharp contrast to the revival of Europe and the rise of the Middle East.
Two months later, Bush stepped down in the face of domestic scolding, becoming one of the only few impeached presidents in US history.
At this time, the separatist forces in Turkey have intensified, and the Turkish government has used aircraft and artillery to deal with the Kurdistan who are about to be divided. At this time, the Arabs declared the eastern part of Turkey a no-fly zone, prohibiting all sorts of warplanes from flying over it, which Turkey was very indignant. However, in the face of the Arabs, who even the Americans could not beat, Turkey had to swallow the bitter fruit and did not challenge the Iraqis.
The long-standing wishes of the Kurds have finally come true, and they have managed to create their own state, Kurdistan, which is immediately recognized by the Arab world.
However, most of them are Kurds originally from Turkey. As for the Kurds, who were originally in Iran and Iraq, they chose to stay more often because their living standards were already very high at this time. I don't think of a country that is still dominated by animal husbandry.
The creation of Kurdistan made them very grateful to Iraq, and without the strong support of Iraq, the ** of the Kurds, it would have been almost impossible.
So, when Iraq offered to lease the original air base of the American garrison. They immediately agreed.
In this way, the eastern part of the Mediterranean, which has all been brought under the control of Iraq, from the bases of Kurdistan in the north. To the air base in Libya in the south, any surface ship will be attacked by fighter jets deployed here in Iraq.
The United States began negotiations with the Arab world, those tens of thousands of captured American soldiers. At this time, it was good to stay in the prisoner of war camp in Iraq, not to mention anything else. Even if it is to provide them with food every day, it is also an expense.
Originally, the United States thought that Iraq would make various demands for compensation and shirk its responsibility for the war, but they did not expect that the demands made by the Iraqi side were very low, and in addition to asking the United States to lift the freeze on the assets of the Arab countries, that is, the United States only needed to pay for Iraq's meals for these US troops in the past few months.
This demand almost brought tears to the eyes of Powell, who came to the talks, and they were ready to accept the fact that if the Iraqi side proposed a war reparations of several hundred million dollars, although their economy was now in recession, they would still have to accept it, because the families of these prisoners of war had already staged many demonstrations in the country to protest against the government's inaction.
Tariq, who came to negotiate, said something at the press conference, which touched countless people and made countless people scold the Iraqis for their shamelessness.
"In the recorded history of mankind, there has been no time for war, less than a hundred years in total, and peace has always been a luxury, and we Arabs have also deeply felt this, and in the less than 100 years since Iraq got rid of colonial rule, we have almost spent it in war and turmoil, so we feel the preciousness of peace even more. The outbreak of this large-scale military conflict between us and the United States is not our intention, we are not afraid of any war, and we have never been afraid of nuclear deterrence, but we still pray for peace, so, for the sake of peace, we are willing to put these soldiers who are far away from home, back to their own land, and we also welcome them, they can come here at any time to travel, war, it is a politician's game, for civilians, what they hope is that they can drink a cup of hot coffee in their own homes, Accompany your family and live a peaceful and stable life. ā
The peace agreement was reached, and the United States was already a complete loser in every way, and at the last moment, Powell still felt a lot of embarrassment, because Iraq refused to allow the United States to use dollars to settle the meal compensation to Iraq.
In the past few months, the dollar has depreciated by 40 percent, and the foreign exchange reserves of various countries have begun to greatly reduce the dollar and start to store more euros and Argentine dollars.
In desperation, Powell agreed to use the gold reserves of the United States to settle the settlement.
In addition to these prisoners of war, the rest is the equipment of the United States, Iraq in the naval battle, captured several warships including the USS Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Aegis cruiser, and also salvaged an American B-52 bomber, these things, until now, are still American, and the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Iraq has undergone some repairs, and the damaged parts have been restored.
Iraq's prisoners of war can be given almost for free, but Iraq cannot give these equipment in vain, especially since Iraq helped the Americans repair these warships, and the Americans must pay some money.
The price indicated by Qusay is 500 million A. dollars. However, Tariq, who is familiar with Qusay's temper, when negotiating, one mouth, this amount, has become 1.5 billion dollars.
When the time comes, the Americans will be able to show their generosity.
But in the end, what no one expected was that the United States did not agree, and they put forward a proposition that Tariq would never have imagined, and simply, Iraq would contribute $1.5 billion, and the Americans would sell all these warships to Iraq.
The Americans actually don't want these warships anymore.
It's not that the Americans don't want it, but because the United States can no longer maintain such a huge military spending, and in the face of domestic problems, they can only reduce various expenditures, and many domestic research and development projects have been cut, and even the F-22 fighters that are about to enter service cannot be allocated smoothly.
In the United States, there has been a wind of immigration, in the past, other people immigrated to the United States, but now, they have immigrated from the United States to Europe, and some have immigrated to the Middle East, but after all, they are a minority.
In this case, the Americans might as well sell these warships directly to Iraq if they get them back at a high price, and the United States has already decided to maintain the size of the five aircraft carrier battle groups and reduce the strength of the force by half.
Of course, Iraq will not contribute $1.5 billion, these warships were all captured by Iraq, so why should Iraq pay for them? After difficult negotiations between the two sides, Iraq finally paid $50 million to receive all of these warships. The $50 million is mainly due to the need for the United States to provide technology for dismantling and disposing of nuclear reactors.
The United States knows that since these warships have been carefully studied by Iraq for several months, all the secrets inside are no longer secrets.
As for Iraq, there are indeed many things on these warships, which they are more interested in, and they have already figured out the main structure of the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, which will play a very important role in the design of their next-generation aircraft carriers.
In addition to the problems of the Americans, the other problem is the Jews.
Iraq has sent troops to control all the Jews in the settlements, and for the same purpose, Iraq can strike at the Israeli army, it can fight the head of government of Israel and others, but for ordinary Jewish civilians, there must be no massacres in Iraq.
Because of years of grudges, even if the Iraqis do not take action, they are afraid that some extremist groups will do it, and this behavior will be encouraged by the ignorant, so Iraq has controlled all the Jews in advance, and at the same time, it is also to protect them.
The entire land, already all Palestinian land, will be stationed in Haifa and Tel Aviv, and Iraq's Mediterranean fleet will use Haifa as its home port.
And the question of how these Jews were to be resettled began to become realistic.
It was at this time that the Jewish forces in the United States finally began to act, and they sent representatives in the hope of negotiating with the Iraqi government.
The Zionists know that their dreams have been shattered, so what they need to do now is to rescue their compatriots, Iraq, will never allow them to stay there, and even if they do, it is no longer safe for them to continue there.
In the eighteenth century, there were only a few hundred Jews here, before World War II there were only 40,000 Jews here, and after World War II there were 600,000 Jews here. Later, through continuous migration and multiplication, it reached the size of six million Jews.
So, what will Iraq do with these Jews?
The world is watching here, watching how Iraq behaves and how they will react.